Scotrail Must do Better on Paisley Canal Route, says Ross Greer, Green MSP for the West of Scotland.
An MSP has blasted Scotrail after it emerged that only four-in-ten trains arrived at Paisley Canal on time in the last year.
The figures, released this week as part of Scotrail’s monthly performance update, show that over 12 months up to 24 June, only 41.2% of trains arrived within a minute and 97.4% were within five minutes of their timetabled arrival time.
Greer said: “The fact that far more trains into Paisley Canal in the last year were late than on time is an embarrassment for Scotrail. They clearly need to do far more and invest much more to make our local services reliably run on time.
“I speak to so many constituents who simply can’t trust their local train service and have no faith in Scotrail to turn it around. Trains are too often cancelled or late, overcrowded and uncomfortable. We need to bring the railways back into public ownership so that they’re run with the needs of passengers, not profits, as top priority. The Greens have been calling for this for a long time and the SNP government need to get a move on.”